Blogs

The whole chatting/instant messaging ecosystem has changed dramatically over the last couple of years. It was was previously dominated by small number of big service providers (Microsoft, Google), but has new been fragmented into many different proto... more

Google has recently released the Android 4.4 KitKat firmware images to the Nexus 7 (2012) devices. The more recent model has this version installed out of the box, but the old version needs to be updated either over the air (OTA), or by reflashing th... more

Quite a few Windows Phone users, who are mostly Nokia Lumia owners, have reported somewhat random issues with the Internet Sharing hot spot feature. We have been able to identify at least one issue with the operating system, and a workaround to avoid... more

Microsoft is now pushing people to merge their Skype and Microsoft (Live, Outlook, Messenger...) accounts and also offering the possibility to sign up with your MS account. In practice the whole merging operation seems like a total disaster, and I hi... more

Make no mistake, this has been the plan all along since Nokia and Microsoft shook hands, making Nokia 100% committed to the Windows Phone platform. And indeed the plan has worked out great for Microsoft, as the announced price of the deal is a real b... more